The Legend of Pope Joan, Part 2. Athens by Rachel Dax

The Legend Of Pope Joan, Part 2. Athens was a 2014 GOLDEN CROWN LITERARY SOCIETY AWARDS finalist in the Historical Fiction Category!

Joan, now living as a seminarian in Athens, starts to grow up and embrace what it really means to live as a man for good. She works diligently to look, think and ‘feel’ like a male – as simply being a ‘woman in disguise’ would be too dangerous and doomed to fail. Although this process is challenging, her overarching desire to become a scholarly priest also appears to be God’s will for her, so the sacrifice of her femininity feels worth it. But when Joan meets a young woman named Thea, every decision she has made thus far is called into question.